Power Quotes

• We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • God
  • Nature
  • Strong

• My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • People
  • Men
  • Character

• In our firm's earliest days, our understanding of the power of great software engineering and quantitative analytics helped Citadel stand out.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Engineering

• I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Power

• The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

  

  Breyten Breytenbach
  • World
  • America
  • Ungrateful

• That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • Money
  • Opportunity
  • Question

• The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.

  

  Christian Lous Lange
  • Power
  • War
  • Moral

• If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • World
  • Experience
  • Parents

• I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • Trying
  • Faith
  • Lost

• Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Power

• Once having proclaimed our loyalty to the abstract idea that all men are created equal, we do everything in our power to prove ourselves unequal. Among the world's peoples, none other belongs to so many clubs, associations, committees and secret societies.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • World
  • Men
  • Loyalty

• There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • God
  • Country
  • Opinion

• The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• I have a picture of me with Lady Antebellum, when they released their first single and I was at CMA Fest as a fan. I'm in flower-power shorts and a headband - so not cute - and I'm fan-girling next to Hillary. I couldn't believe I was standing next to her.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Believe
  • Single
  • Picture

• There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • High
  • Giving
  • Community

• The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Speculation

• My morning rituals are typical. I wake up yearning for a few extra moments of rest. I express gratitude to a higher power for the breath in my body and the blessings in my life. I shower. I dress. I eat breakfast. I exchange laughter and words with my beloveds, embracing each other as we say our daily goodbyes.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Life
  • Up
  • Words

• It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

  

  Bruce Kent
  • Present
  • Organization
  • Manipulation

• The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Good
  • Power
  • Evil

• Truly, with such facts as these before us, we might well faint for fear did we not know that there is a mightier Power above all the hosts of the Prince of Darkness, One Who regards us with feelings of wondrous love, Who is not only able, but yearning, to shield us from the destroyer now, and Who purposes shortly to deliver us altogether from the anxiety, the terror, and the danger, of his assaults. For although the Lord has not yet formally deposed the rebel, and arranged a new government, He does not leave the world entirely to Satan’s mercy. Angels of God penetrate the realms of air, encamp round about them that fear Him, and protect them from the malignant foes to whom they would otherwise fall an easy prey.[72] Nor are their numbers insufficient: the servant of Elisha beheld the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire round about his master.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Fear
  • Faint
  • Mightier

• Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

  

  Allen West
  • Together
  • High
  • Compassion

• All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

  

  Amar Bose
  • Power
  • Military

• You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Power
  • Joy

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